Xbox successor in 2015?

A somewhat ambiguous posting on a web portfolio of a designer currently working for Microsoft has got tongues wagging about a potential 2015 launch date for the next Xbox console.

Posted by Ben Peterson, who was recently recruited to work at Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business, the art (spotted by ZDNet) reads: "Confidential / Collaboration with Microsoft’s IEB Design Group investigating future user experiences and hardware for 2015."

Indeed, SCE boss Kaz Hirai recently insisted that the company is "not deliberating" PS4 and argued once gain that the four year old PS3 is not even middle aged.

Some, such as Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima, have even predicted the death of console hardware as we know it due to the increasing competition offered by social gaming and potential cloud gaming networks such as OnLive.